Discontinuity marks the female experience. Physical disruptions and changes, such as menstruation and childbearing, have social, emotional, and psychological weight. Through video, photography, and collage construction through found material, this body of interdisciplinary work explores female physical changes and how these experiences, and recovery from them, shape inner life and self perception.

Many of these dramatic physical changes are preparation for new life. Yet, death, pain, and loss are intrinsically tied into their cycles. It is then, apt to draw on Western Christian compositions: as with Sanguine (way), the menstrual cycle as the stations of the cross, this format illuminates each journey toward death to life, and help to uncover the spiritual dimension of physical experience.

The body is both displayed and transformed through pieces such as HOME GROAN: blast-o!, a hat/mask made from a baby shower’s leftover wrapping paper and balloons, which use abstracted, repetitive forms to depict inner and outer changes in the female body--in this case, the blastocyst stage in early embryonic development as well as nursing breasts.

A provocative, serious, and playful meditation that bridges inner and outer transformation, WHITE WHITE RED: living woman closely observes both inward and outward to describe an archetypal spiritual struggle as incarnated in the female experience.

Sanguine (way)

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6" x 8"

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Station Ⅱ

6" x 8"

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Station Ⅲ

6" x 8"

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Station Ⅳ

6" x 8"

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Station Ⅷ

6" x 8"

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I. Her bleeding beginsII. She carries her crossIII. She falls the first timeIV. She restsV. She rebuildsVI. She wipes her faceVII. She ovulatesVIII. She collectsIX. She secrets / She meets the womenX, She is left emptyXI. She lies downXII. She degeneratesXIII. She ends endometrialXVI. Her resurrection